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MVIERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. 

^f^ Washington, D. C, 

December S, ipoo. 
By authority of the Executive Council the circular printed 
below has been prepared by Professor Hart for the information 
of members and for action at the Detroit meeting. 

A. Howard Clark, 

Assistatit Secretary 



PROJECT OF A COOPERATIVE HISTORY. 

The Committee appointed at Boston to consider a cooperative 
history of the United States has reported to the Council in favor 
of the project, and will ask the Council at the Detroit meeting 
to pass the following proposed vote : 

Voted, That a standing committee of five be appointed to 
arrange for the publication of a cooperative history of the United 
States, under the auspices of the Association, on the following 
conditions : 

1 . The Committee to have power to decide on the scope and 
extent of the work; the publication to be made in small volumes, 
each complete in itself so far as it goes. 

2. The Committee to have power to choose an editor-in-chief, 
to carry on the work, subject to the determinations of the Com- 
mittee, which will represent the Association, 

3. The Committee to have power to make publishing arrange- 
ments. 

. 4. The Association in no case to have any pecuniary respon- 
sibility or liability for any expense connected with the history. 
5. The Committee to report annually to the Association until 
the work is finished. 

Experienced publishers believe that a work prepared on this 
plan, under the supervision of the As.sociation, would easily pay 
for itself. Inasmuch as the plan is a new one, the chairman of 
the special committee (Professor Albert Bu.shnell Hart, Cam- 
bridge, Ma.ssachu setts) will be glad to have the opinions of 
members of the Association by letter before the Detroit meeting. 



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